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William Peter Blatty Wiki Biography

William Peter Blatty was born on January 7, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist III (1990) and The Ninth Configuration (1980). He has been married to Julie Alicia Blatty since June 14, 1983. They have two children. He was previously married to Linda Blatty, Mary Margaret ...

Academy Award for Best Picture, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama

Movies

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, Exorcist: The Beginning, The Exorcist III, The Ninth Configuration, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Exorcist, Darling Lili, Gunn, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Promise Her Anything, A Shot in the Dark, The Man from the Diner's Club

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[on the Academy Awards snub of The Exorcist (1973), which out of ten nominations won only for Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay (which went to Blatty himself)] The Academy should fold its tent and go back to baking apple strudel or whatever they can do well.

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Blatty won a scholarship to Georgetown University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1950 and later earned a master's degree in English from George Washington University in 1954.

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His parents, Peter Blatty (a carpenter) and Mary Mouakod Blatty, were Lebanese immigrants. His father deserted the family when William was six, leaving Mary Blatty to raise five children.

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He served in the U.S. Air Force Psychological Warfare Division from 1951 to 1954.

Years before he became famous for writing "The Exorcist", Blatty appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show, You Bet Your Life (1950), posing as an Arab sheik with so many wives that he could not recall how many he had. Groucho was completely taken in. When Blatty revealed that it was a hoax after a couple of minutes, he told Groucho that he did it because George Fenneman had said that Groucho was an expert at spotting phonies. Groucho replied, "That is incorrect, because I've had Fenneman in my employ now for 14 years." Blatty won $10,000 on the show, and when Groucho asked what he intended to do with the money, Blatty replied that he was going to take a year off from his job and write a novel. That novel was "The Exorcist",.